VolcanoEngine: Doubao-Seed 1.8

volcengine/doubao-seed-1.8

Doubao-Seed-1.8 is optimized for multimodal agent scenarios. In terms of agent capabilities, tool use and complex command compliance have been significantly enhanced. Regarding multimodal understanding, basic visual capabilities have been significantly improved, enabling low-frame-rate understanding of extremely long videos. Video motion understanding, complex spatial understanding, and document structure parsing capabilities have also been optimized, and intelligent context management is now supported, allowing users to configure context strategies.

Model specifications

Input
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Output
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Context
256,000 tokens
Max output
32,000 tokens
Input price
$0.13 / 1M tokens
Output price
.25 / 1M tokens
Released
2026-03-20

Capabilities

  • Streaming
  • Function calling
  • Vision
  • JSON mode
  • Playground

Provider pricing, discounts and data privacy

Compare effective provider prices, published discounts, regions, retention policies, training use, compliance, and privacy links by service tier.

Standard service tier

1 available provider · tier input average $0.13 / 1M tokens · tier output average .25 / 1M tokens

VolcanoEngine

Tier: Standard · Region: CN

Pricing
Input
$0.13 / 1M tokens
Output
.25 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.03 / 1M tokens

No provider discount is currently published.

Data privacy and compliance
Region
CN
Zero data retention
No
Data retention
Unknown retention
Used for training
Unknown
Data collection
Moderated
No
GDPR compliant
No
HIPAA compliant
No
SOC 2 certified
No
BYOK supported
No

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Frequently asked questions

What is VolcanoEngine: Doubao-Seed 1.8?
Doubao-Seed-1.8 is optimized for multimodal agent scenarios. In terms of agent capabilities, tool use and complex command compliance have been significantly enhanced. Regarding multimodal understanding, basic visual capabilities have been significantly improved, enabling low-frame-rate understanding of extremely long videos. Video motion understanding, complex spatial understanding, and document structure parsing capabilities have also been optimized, and intelligent context management is now supported, allowing users to configure context strategies.
How much does VolcanoEngine: Doubao-Seed 1.8 cost?
Input costs start at $0.13 / 1M tokens and output costs start at .25 / 1M tokens. Provider-level prices vary by service tier.
What is the context length of VolcanoEngine: Doubao-Seed 1.8?
VolcanoEngine: Doubao-Seed 1.8 supports a 256,000 token context window and up to 32,000 output tokens.
What capabilities does VolcanoEngine: Doubao-Seed 1.8 support?
VolcanoEngine: Doubao-Seed 1.8 supports Streaming, Function calling, Vision, JSON mode, Playground.
Which providers offer VolcanoEngine: Doubao-Seed 1.8?
VolcanoEngine: Doubao-Seed 1.8 is available from VolcanoEngine.
How do providers handle data privacy for VolcanoEngine: Doubao-Seed 1.8?
1 of 1 providers report that customer data is not used for training, and 0 offer zero-data-retention routing. Retention, compliance, and privacy-policy links are listed per provider.

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